Bringing documentaries home 

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A DOCUMENTARY film festival has successfully reached its fundraising goal to bring home some of the oldest existing documentaries on the Philippines which are stored in the British Film Institute. Among the 35mm films stored in the London archives are documentaries made in 1911 — Fabrication Des Chapeaux De Manille and Industrie De L’abaca A L’ile De Cebu — a film made in 1926 called Manila Street Scene, and another filmed in 1929: Glimpses Of The Culion Leper Colony And Of Culion Life, according to a Daang Dokyu press release.

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